NetBSD Sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record

Posted by timothy on Monday May 3, 2004 @11:33AM from the showoffs dept.

Daniel de Kok writes "Researchers of the Swedish University Network (SUNET) have beaten the Internet2 Land Speed Record using two Dell 2650 machines with single 2GHz CPUs running NetBSD 2.0 Beta. SUNET has transferred around 840 GigaBytes of data in less than 30 minutes, using a single IPv4 TCP stream, between a host at the Luleå University of Technology and a host connected to a Sprint PoP in San Jose, CA, USA. The achieved speed was 69.073 Petabit-meters/second. According to the research team, NetBSD was chosen 'due to the scalability of the TCP code.'"

"More information about this record including the NetBSD configuration can be found at: http://proj.sunet.se/LSR2/
The website of the Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) competition is located at: http://lsr.internet2.edu/"

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as a friend said while reading this article... by Ruliz+Galaxor · 2004-05-03 12:11 · Score: 1, Offtopic

if internet2 is so fast, then why do you want to replace internet4 by internet6 instead of internet2?

It took me a few seconds to realize he was confusing IP with Internet. After that I said it was impossible to send email over internet2 and he seemed quite satisfied with the answer ;)

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